Trump Shows Us the Way

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump slipped into the Oval Office through a wormhole of confusion about the American identity. We weren’t winning wars anymore. They just went on and on and on, with inexplicable and deceptive aims and so many lives and limbs and trillions lost. We couldn’t believe in our …

Julian Zelizer is a history and public affairs professor at Princeton University and the editor of “The Presidency of Barack Obama: A First Historical Assessment,” a new book that Princeton University Press plans to publish this March. He’s also the co-host of the “Politics & Polls” podcast. The opinions …

The first article of impeachment against Richard Nixon argued that he had “prevented, obstructed and impeded the administration of justice.” One of the two impeachment articles that the House passed against Bill Clinton used that identical phrase. In both cases, the article then laid out the evidence with a …

To the Editor: Thank you, David Brooks, for boldly “mansplaining” everything we need to know about the abortion rights debate. The issue is not Roe v. Wade, or when a fetus can sense faces, or even public opinion. The primary issue was, is and will always be whether any man has the right to dictate to a …

The Oct. 31, 2017, vehicle ramming attack in New York City was just one example of a growing threat emerging around the globe, with notable upticks throughout Europe in recent years. These attacks have used trucks and cars; some rented, some stolen and some that were owned by the terrorists …

As part of the discussion about Donald Trump’s lack of fitness for the presidency, some have argued that his linguistic capacities have worsened, suggesting significant cognitive decline. In interviews in the 1980s and 1990s, Mr. Trump speaks in complete sentences, using mature vocabulary and …

Ta-Nehisi Coates probably put it best in his January 2017 Atlantic magazine article“My President Was Black.” He explained how Mr. Obama’s direct connection to, and intimate familiarity with, white people — his mother, Ann Dunham, and her parents — helped fuel his sense of possibility, of not only who …

Republicans preached fiscal austerity when the economy needed stimulus, and have turned to fiscal profligacy now that it doesn’t. If this surprises you, either you’ve been completely oblivious to the reality of the modern GOP for the past decade, or you’re a reflexive centrist – which is pretty much the same …